Don Black

Don Black (28 July 1953-) was Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1978 to 1981, succeeding David Duke.

Biography
Don Black was born in Athens, Alabama in 1953, and he became a white supremacist activist during high school, handing out racist newspapers White Power and Thunderbolt to other students until the school board banned the distribution of political literature. In 1970, he worked on National States' Rights Party candidate J.B. Stoner's failed Georgia gubernatorial campaign, and he then joined the American Nazi Party's youth wing. He graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1975 and joined the Ku Klux Klan that same year, moving to Birmingham to become the group's state organizer. In 1978, he became Grand Wizard, and he received 2.5% of the vote during a failed bid for Mayor of Birmingham in 1979. On 27 April 1981, he and nine other would-be mercenaries were arrested in New Orleans before they could set sail to invade the island of Dominica in an attempt to install an anti-communist regime under Patrick John in power. He served three years in prison, taking computer programming classes in prison. In 1995, he founded Stormfront, the internet's first major racial hate site. In 2007, he donated money to Ron Paul's 2008 Republican presidential bid. On 5 May 2009, he was banned from entering the United Kingdom. His son Derek Black disavowed his family's views, having previously been another white supremacist.